Edu 401: Teaching Diverse Learners

Recap: Digital Storytelling in Education

• capturing experience
• reflection
• sharing
• engagement
• remember
• maybe a future assignment in your class?

What Makes a Good Story?

Connect to Your Audience

• Share a personal story
• Think about a conflict that you overcame
• Something that made you think differently
• What's the takeaway?
• What will happen next?

Everyone Has a Story the World Needs to Hear

Why Do We Tell Stories?

History of Storytelling

• knowledge transfer
• relay experience
• teach values

Narratives...

• address the listener as a human being rather than a member of a class or society
• allows us to relate to each other
• increases understanding of others

Open Your Story With:

• nothing predictable
• take audience on a journey
• be relatable
• people are hard-wired to listen to stories
• add a "spark"

What Makes a Story Irresistible?

• Conflict: a fight between opposing forces
• good & bad, life & death
• hate & forgiveness, freedom & oppression.

Why I am a Teacher

Bring Your Story to Life!

What's Next...

• draft narratives
• peer review
• April 5 meeting in Collaboratory to record digital stories
• April 10 meeting in Collaboratory to begin editing in WeVideo
• share your digital stories with the class...and the world!